British Transport Films Movies

British Rail's wagon control system and how it works, concentrating on the information most useful to the specific wagon operating staff.

The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."

A romantic overview of England in the Elizabethan Age.

Report No. 11 in a series of 13 topical films. Because 1970 was European Conservation Year, this issue of the Rail Report Series was devoted to exampl...

The film's contents are as follows: Merry-go-round coal trains - between collieries and power stations; Motorail; stations - Birmingham New St., Durha...

One of six films which examine in depth the work involved in this great engineering project. As they are of a technical nature, they were only availab...

The people of the Scottish Highlands live in small communities set in landscapes of unsurpassed beauty.

The Yorkshire Dales - 'from which no traveller wishes to return'. Sheltering under the Pennines, the Dales have escaped the human ravages of time. The...

Commercial and technical developments on British Rail: new freight loads, air conditioned carriages, an ultrasonic test-train for checking the permane...

Replacing a century-old rail tunnel at Woodhead, co-ordinated road haulage services in Argyllshire, Whitemoor freight marshalling yeard, Bristol bus s...

Covers safety procedures in track maintenance work. Intended primarily for track maintenance staff and use on induction courses.

Light verse and gay music make their own comment on the holidaymakers of the Yorkshire coastline. Between Tees and Humber thousands each year enjoy th...

Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshi...

A high speed Inter-City train is the star of this impressionist film in which picture and music are brought together to enhance the mood and rhythm of...

Intended for European audiences to encourage them to drive to Britain for their holidays. Shows the travel facilities offered by Sealink, and suggests...

Two keen hostelling youths, Ken Moody and Brian Cotton, convert a boat in their native Selby into a youth hostel, and get the chance to air their view...

An Englishman has just got off the train at St. Enoch Station and is asking a cab driver to show him around Glasgow. Naturally, the cab driver is happ...

Short documentary hymning the wonders of 'modernisation' on the railways.

Based on the sequence of events which led to the deaths of two young trackmen, concluding with an enquiry into the reasons why they were killed. Inten...

Intended for training railway permanent way men, capturing how men working on the track react as a train approaches.